New York: Knopf, 1996. A fine copy in quarter-backed black cloth and purple boards and silver lettering and design on the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. The author has signed on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the fourteen stories in this collection "go beyond their beautifully rendered details to a level of emotional redemption rarely found in today's fiction." Included are "The Lover," "Out of the Snow," "The Colonel's Wife," and the title story. Codice inventario libreria 5576

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